BJP leader Anupam Hazra on Tuesday slammed Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty for his alleged "anti-Santiniketan activities" and claimed he would not get an extension.

Chakrabarty's term as Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor ends on Wednesday.

"Tomorrow is his last day as VC and I can assure you his term will not be extended. The people of Santiniketan will heave a sigh of relief.... The plaques he set up without the name of Rabindranath Tagore were nothing but a move to please Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the hope of getting an extension. However, the central government has understood how he tarnished Tagore's image here," Hazra said.

Chakrabarty courted controversy after he installed two plaques to commemorate Unesco's World Heritage Site tag for Santiniketan, which omitted Tagore's name but bore the names of Modi and Chakrabarty.

Hazra made the scathing attack on Chakrabarty after garlanding a bust of Tagore in front of the dais where Trinamul workers and leaders have been demonstrating for 12 days for the removal of the two plaques.

"It is interesting that a senior BJP leader like Hazra came near Trinamul's protest venue and spoke along the same lines as Mamata Banerjee's party. It proves that the BJP does not endorse Chakrabarty's act," a varsity official said.

Hazra, however, claimed he went to the venue as Tagore belonged to all and no political party could claim credit for protesting against the "anti-Santiniketan activities" of the VC.

"Trinamul's protest is 12 days old but I raised my voice against this VC for his anti-Santiniketan acts more than a year ago.... We won't let Trinamul take the entire credit. I was the first to criticise the plaques without Tagore's name," said Hazra, a BJP national general secretary and former MP.

Trinamul's Kunal Ghosh countered: "Everyone knows his (Hazra's) role in the BJP. It is not the BJP, but Trinamul which raised its voice against the wrongdoings of the VC, including his attack on Amartya Sen."

Bengal BJP chief spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya criticised Hazra for going near the protest site of Trinamul, a party that "tortured" BJP workers. He said he hoped Hazra had forgotten his "old connection" with Trinamul.

Hazra, in turn, accused Bhattacharya of not being connected to the grassroots and speaking from an "AC environment".